skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an avid reader, but I've rediscovered reading in the past couple years. A few tips that help me:

1) Keep a list of book recommendations mentioned from HN, podcasts, friends, etc. Eventually, some will be recommended twice or more, and that may be enough to tell your brain "this will be worth it."

2) Try non-fiction if you're usually a fiction person, or vice versa. I grew up enjoying only fiction. But now I realize I enjoy non-fiction a lot more.

3) Don't stick with boring books for more than a couple chapters. I've been using thriftbooks.com, so it's affordable to toss a few dollars away and try again.
It fits on your phone, and your phone can offload battery burning tasks to nearby edge servers. Seems like the path consumer-facing AI will take.
> a one-dimensional point called a singularity, where the laws of physics as we know them cease to operate.
Laws of physics don't cease to operate. As in they don't stop or go to zero. We start running into near infinities and infinities. That is a poor choice of words.

Below plank length, plank time, plank energy we don't have insight into the inner workings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjVfL8uNkUk

The laws of physics are perfectly fine as we have trillions of blackholes in the universe ongoing for billions of years.

It's our models that cannot describe what we cannot measure.
The only reason I upgraded is my wife “stole” my M1 air. I bought a loaded M3 MBP and then they came out with a 15” Air with dual monitor capabilities. Kinda wish I had the air again. It’s not like I move it around much but the form factor is awesome.
As a sound and music computing person, I rarely used tui before although I use cli tools often, e.g. SoX. I usually use Audacity to record on Mac. But then I realized I wanted a tool that could quickly open and record inspiration, and that's when TUI came into play: I decided to write my own custom tool called asak (audio Swiss Army Knife) [1]

This way I can quickly record on Mac, with some interaction, and of course, since this is Rust and ratatui [2], this tool should also be cross-platform.

[1] https://github.com/chaosprint/asak

[2] https://ratatui.rs/
What is the punishment for apostay in Islam?
> Most iPads are vastly overpowered and last for a long time.

Which is why it's a shame they have poor repairability
I never understood this argument.

Theres no “status” to a brand of phone when the cheapest point of entry is comparable and the flagship is cheaper than the alternative flagship.

Marketing in most of europe is chiefly not the same as the US though so maybe its a perspective thing.

I just find it hard to really argue “status” when the last 4 iPhone generations are largely the same and cheaper than the Samsung flagships.

At Elgiganten a Samsung S24 Ultra is 19,490 SEK[0].

The most expensive iPhone 15 pro max is 18,784 SEK at the same store[1].

[0]: https://nya.elgiganten.se/product/mobiler-tablets-smartklock...

[1]: https://nya.elgiganten.se/product/mobiler-tablets-smartklock...
The longer MAD works, the better I feel about it. We're at 77 of nuclear peace thanks to MAD. That's a pretty good record.
"If my grandmother had wheels, she could have been a bicycle." Serif type is based on the use of chisels to carve rock. ANY other semblance is purely speculative. The trademark for Times New Roman is owned by the British, not the Italians.
> There was a time where unless you graduated from a top-flight school, or were top X% at one of the better state schools, or had some other "in" (e.g. knowing somebody) the cool kids at the time (Microsoft/Apple/Yahoo/Intel/etc.) wouldn't even talk to you

I don't think this has changed.
YES! This was a long overdue “feature”.
They don't care. You don't think Apple with their trillions of dollars maybe could make a version of the iPhone version that's upgradable? The worst thing is the industry follows their lead so everything they don't do, the industry does as well.

Apple comes out with 4 versions of the iPhone every year right? How about a fifth version that is 2mm thicker with the ability to upgrade. This is the wealthiest company on the planet in history and they are doing almost nothing.
I agree. Bought a flat of it a couple of months ago and haven’t drank more than half of them.
Update!

1,000,001 now
Managing one pair of headphones that connects to more than one device is a nightmare, everything always auto connects/disconnects when you don't want. Many devices don't have a temporarily disable connection attempts toggle.
That's exactly the one I started with, and used for years until the plastic got brittle and cracked.
See https://archive.org/post/256492/the-betty-question-answered for more details both on WoS and the microphone setup.
Not a launch site, but the largest stockpile of deployed nukes in the world is in a heavily populated area near seattle.

https://truthout.org/articles/puget-sound-is-home-to-the-big...
This hypothetical building wouldn't exist, because it would have never had a building permit issued.
There’s certainly some strange effects on the edges, for example founders/early investors never realizing their gains and instead just taking loans collateralized with their assets (that’s how hyperrich avoid income taxes: just don’t have any taxable income)
Thanks for the feedback. The site is in very early stage and we don't have a final design, yet. If you want to help us with CSS etc the code is open source at: https://github.com/WebView-CG/Compatibility-Data-Project
Interesting, thanks for the info. I must have missed this. It doesn't seem completely unfair to not pass your main Google password, and I imagine you still might be able to use generated application passwords if you really need the functionality (maybe).
Micro-Dosing Caffeine
>subpar Android apps

Care to cite these subpar Android apps? The app store is filled to the brim with subpar and garbage apps.

>Google dropping support for an app about once a month

I mean if you're going to lie why not go bigger

>I'm okay with the lesser of two evils.

So the more evil company is the one that pulled out of China because they refused to hand over their users data to the Chinese government on a fiber optic silver plate?
Well I don't mind to agree to disagree :)

Similar points between your comment and the other reply. Still I worked with Java in the past and Ruby has been a liberation for me. It allows me to simpler, cleaner and less complex to write my code.

I work on one of the largest Rails apps and the added typing is usually more of a burden than anything - sure could be the implementation of typing which is harder for Ruby than let's say JS (to your point)

Still I don't mind others wanting to write typed code and finding more positives to it than I do - I just still am not convinced that statically typed is ever objectively better than dynamic and it stays of subjective nature.

TLDR: imho the quality problem of most large code bases is not due to dynamic typing but due to many other factors that lead to low quality code
Location: Lyon, France

Remote: Yes. Strongly prefer this way of working.

Willing to relocate: Almost certainly not.

Technologies: Go, Postgres, basic Linux/UNIX system administration, various other things (see CV).

Résumé/CV: arielche.net/cv.pdf

Email: apchenet@gmail.com

I'm relatively new to the software industry.
I'm open to changing roles to work somewhere that will teach me something I want to learn and give me more freedom, both financially and in where I can live.
I'm an excellent communicator, that is probably my greatest strength.
I'm curious, I'm honest, and I'm kind. My favorite feedback from a manager is that I get along with everyone.
I do like to think that I'm a rigourous thinker, but I find errors in my thinking fairly often. I suppose this is better than having errors and never finding them, but clearly I'm not perfect in this regard. I do try to work on improving, however.
If you're looking for raw technical ability and experience, you can probably find better elsewhere.
If you want someone you enjoy working with, and my current experience and abilties can be useful to you, I'd love to hear from you.
Yea, OP's questions show that what we really need is an equivalent to the bar exam for software developers, if we want to move beyond these fizzbuzz interviews. Something that would at least assure a base level of programming skill. You'd still have to test for specific domain knowledge, but a comprehensive "programming bar" test could at least show someone met the minimum.
> The value isn't in learning how to not get into the same trap, but to understand your competition better and how to learn what is most likely going on internally and how to exploit it.

Yeah, this is why things get shitty.
It's almost impossible to talk about The Dead and not talk about LSD.

Owsley (wall of sound engineer) was one of the original major LSD manufactures... and a dead show was always where you went to score ACID if you lived on the east coast. This remained true well into the 90's.

I'm going to guess that all of those early internet pioneers that you mentioned also have fond stories of LSD.

The Dead, Bill graham, hells angles, peoples temple, Patty Hearst.... There is a continuum of culture that spills out of San Francisco to this very day.
According to ftp://retronn.de/archiv/old_cds/pcwelt_08_2000/pcw_mat/inhalt/PCW99.PDF page 2, this software was included on a 1999 German CD-ROM "Ausgabe 2/99" (I think that's the CD-ROM that came with the February 1999 issue of the German PC-WELT magazine), at the path "\sharewar\sw\intsich\nukefix.exe". Unfortunately I can't find an ISO of that specific CD-ROM anywhere online, but maybe someone out there has it.
the buildings built 100 years ago to be converted 50 years ago are very different from the buildings built 50 years ago to be converted today. Improved efficiency and optimization for purpose in building design plays some role in that.
> I can't even sell it for parts because I can't erase the SSD

The SSD is encrypted with a rate-limited key in the Secure Enclave - unless someone has your password they’re not getting your data.
My recent purchase of Samsung S23 Ultra at almost £800 is full of Samsung crud and spying that I can't remove.

Cost is no guide on a crud-free experience.
I think it is really cool, and I will definitely give this a try! I mainly use Perplexity / Devin at the moment, but the fact that I can link this to my GitHub and chat with it is impressive!
Not anymore. They switched to a centralized model under their new CEO.
If a computer system designed to store street names is unable to store street names, it’s probably the computer system that should change, not the street names.
Interesting take. I'm a straight male and always thought putting a bunch of boys together in the woods with short shorts and high socks sounded about as non-straight as it gets.

Also, the Native American LARPing line was pretty dope.
i wouldn't give much weight to somebody who's resume shows a work history of starting out after college as a "CTO" to two "Principal Engineer" positions...
The most incredible sound system to hear a band play out of tune and out of key for 90 minutes.
Quantized LLMs can run on a phone, like Gemini Nano or OpenLLAMA 3B. If a small local model can handle simple stuff and delegate to a model in the data center for harder tasks and with better connectivity you could get an even better experience.
I count myself among the people that would consider >60hz necessary.

For me, it's animations, especially if I'm dragging a window or just the mouse. On 60hz it's nauseating if I'm paying too much attention to the window I'm moving. It's goes completely away around 90-100 Hz (at least for me)
I’m probably alone here and this goes against the HN consensus but, as great a piece of tech Postgres is, I’ve often found it to be a premature optimization to pick as the main DB for newer companies. If you don’t know what your data models are, you’re going to end up in worlds of pain constantly running schema migrations like the OP describes.
'Robeyns, who has studied how people perceive wealth, opens with a provocative proposal — governments should set a wealth limit on the order of 10 million euros or US dollars per person.'

So people with wealth close to $10mil should keep all their money in cash and avoid higher-return investments, since the the excess above $10mil would be confiscated? Besides being morally wrong, that would discourage investment.
Only iPad Pro has M4? Once upon a time during the personal computer revolution in the 1980s, little more than a decade after man walked the moon, humans had sufficiently technologically developed that it was possible to compile and run programs on the computers we bought, whether the computer was Apple (I,II,III, Mac), PC, Commodore, Amiga, or whatever. But these old ways were lost to the mists of time. Is there any hope this ancient technology will be redeveloped for iPad Pro within the next 100 years? Specifically within Q4 of 2124, when Prime will finally offer deliveries to polar Mars colonies? I want to buy an iPad Pro M117 for my great-great-great-great-granddaughter but only if she can install a C++ 212X compiler on it.
A browser engine is necessary to render an HTML email, and browser engines have large attack surfaces -- and in general they are very complicated, which makes them difficult to reason about.

Also, normies don't write HTML, but rather they depend on services (like Gmail) offered by corporations to transform their composition into HTML, which gives the corporations and avenue to track me or to try to persuade or influence me unless I want to respond by instructing my normie friend never to send me email.

In general, HTML email brings the privacy and security problems of the web to email.

Also, HTML makes email much harder to archive because an HTML document's legibility often depends on references (embedded in the HTML document) to files on the internet, and these references to online files tend to rot.

Some of us are tired of web tech spreading its tentacles everywhere, especially to technologies like email that were already useful and mature before web tech started spreading to them.
Makes sense, thank you for the thorough answer!
Hi Niklas here. I'm the other Co-Chair of the W3C WebView Community group that built this site. We took heavy inspiration and code from caniemail.com and are still discussing and working on building up this site. It's a very early stage with very little content. If you want to help us feel free to check out the GitHub repository: https://github.com/WebView-CG/Compatibility-Data-Project
Ha! Same.
Related:

No one buys books

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40119958
It's against federal law to IQ test employees, so they ask brain teasers that are IQ test questions thinly disguised as "coding questions."

It's not a perfect system, but it works better than the alternatives.
These are nice animations. However I've always hesitated to get too enamored with these simple 2D visualizations of gradient descent, because one of the strange takeaways from deep learning is that behavior in high dimensions is very different from behavior in low dimensions.

In a 2D problem with many local minima, like the "eggholder functions" [1], gradient descent will be hopeless. But neural net optimization in high dimensions really is a similar situation with many local minima, except gradient descent does great.

Gradient descent in high dimensions also seems to have the ability to "step over" areas of high loss, which you can see by looking at the loss of a linear interpolation between weights at successive steps of gradient descent. This, again, seems like extremely strange behavior with no low-dimensional analogue.

[1] https://www.sfu.ca/~ssurjano/egg.html
Smoother scrolling?
Agreed. I think they just doubled the number of cores and called it a day, but who knows.
It is probably the most hopeful thing I've ever read and more or less believed. Internalizing parts of it has made almost everything easier to think about. I love the idea that flowers are objectively beautifully.
Everyone’s strategy?

The biggest players in commercial AI models at the moment - OpenAI and Google - have made absolutely no noise about pushing inference to end user devices at all. Microsoft, Adobe, other players who are going big on embedding ML models into their products, are not pushing those models to the edge, they’re investing in cloud GPU.

Where are you picking up that this is everyone’s strategy?
Well, it's Rust. I am using TypeScript. I guess I am sticking with Electron. Maybe WebGPU can help me out.
Especially if the windows don't open.
Yeah for all the possible criticism of Google he's seriously arguing it's that there's too much speculative R&D? Generally companies become irrelevant by trying to hold onto their cash cow and not trying to reinvent / find new revenue streams.

I can think of ways I would have approached some specific instances differently (e.g Waymo), but the existence of speculative projects isn't evidence of waste. The specific callout of retirement accounts is strange too. I'm sure many institutional investors are backed by 401ks but is that actually representative? As a wealthy investor I'm guessing he's thinking more about himself and his dividend than other's retirement accounts.
My older son is 8 and is finishing Harry Potter #5. I hope he'll still enjoy reading after he turns 9.
Another advantage of individual speakers for each instrument is that it allows positioning them without the phase cancellation artifacts you get with a stereo setup. It's obvious with some sounds, e.g. try playing some mono pink noise on stereo speakers and move your head. Then try again after hard panning the audio to only one of the speakers. This is why adding a real physical center channel makes dialogue clearer in movies.
Many of the ideas here were explored and commercialized by Meyer Sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Sound_Laboratories (the founder also helped out with the Wall of Sound)
It's probably used that way in a lot of software privacy policies, because a lot of software directly collects information, but the word 'collect' itself doesn't imply any origin.
That pen.org article focuses on "number of bannings" but mixes together state law (predominantly Florida alone) and individual school district policy choices.

It also avoids discussing which age is appropriate for these topics. Most of the support for including explicit sexual violence seems to be about high school, and even there it's not clear that explicit content is necessary to these purposes (I'm not familiar with the books in question).

Then there are the books by Kendi etc. and an example where that was required reading in an AP course (college-level). Sure, that's debatable but isn't of much relevance to reading, reading for enjoyment in particular, by young kids, which is the topic of this HN post.

The pen.org article says "books aren’t harmful—censorship is." So it gives no credence to any kind of concern about age-appropriate topics.
Haha that was my take wrt all sports in school. I don't want other guys touching me. Yuck.
Hypervisor.framework is not exposed without a jailbreak which makes this quite limited in terms of usability and functionality.
As to C, that applies to cold brew just as well as hot brewed coffee.
In every profession that is relatively high stakes, there is a pretty concrete chain of validation that the person can do the thing they claim to be able to do and that chain of validation does indeed rest on demonstrated performance at that capability.

Yes, a surgeon doesn't need to perform traial surgeries every time they change jobs. But, also, they only work inside certified, heavily-regulated institutations that are able to vouch for their previous performance.

No such institutions exist for software engineering.
Yes, this is an infuriating headline, I didn't even want to read tfa till the end.

But it is not pure clickbait and it is relevant to this community.

The medium is the message?

Old adage. But to me this feels a lot worse or at least as bad as the suicide pact and gore stuff that circulated on the web since the millennium.

I hate the web's efficiency at pouring oil into burning fires.

I don't want every country in the world to turn into a social-media-fueled violent lynching cesspit.

Monkeys are primates and deliberately torturing animals, especially mammals, is an evil, antisocial trait that is very predictive of real-world cruelty towards humans.

This is one of the many "draw the line" scenarios where I'm glad that total anonymity is hard to achieve.

With that I don't mean that I'm in favor of tearing down walls that currently limit law enforcement and others.

It's just the repeat observation that social media is poison. Regardless of anonymity. Posting with my real first name, on social media.

Oh my...
People who care about having the latest probably are waiting already anyway.
Kebebab can be had for 6-7 euros in baltics, depending where you buy. Can be less outside of major cities, usually that or more in cities/fancier places.

You can also order online and pay silly prices, because the middleman charges a lot.

Our wages are lower, though.
This is a sad state of affairs.
Amazon Titan Text Premier - new AWS Bedrock LLM
It's just common online courtesy to add to the title a short description of the project like (Zed, code editor) to save users some valuable time.
I'm sure it's more complicated than this but something that definitely has had an influence -- when budgets for a school district are determined by how many students pass vs being left behind, there is an outsized incentive to prepare students for the test instead of for more broadly reasoning or for enjoying the practice of learning.
I remember lugging along a copy of The Idiot by Dostoyevsky with me to read on the subway and feeling like it made me an intellectual badass. I still treasure the memory of the classic lit I read but I very rarely get any pleasure reading in now. This trend among youth is worrying but seems part of an accelerated mutation of our culture
HTTP/2 on Heroku
The vast majority of people don’t. They buy because the ecosystem works. Not sure how I get status from a phone that nobody knows I have. I don’t wear it on a chain.
> If a small local model can handle simple stuff and delegate to a model in the data center for harder tasks and with better connectivity you could get an even better experience.

Distributed mixture of experts sounds like an idea. Is anyone doing that?
Sorry no.
Vulkan literally did not exist.
That's not obfuscation.
It didn't even exist.

Had Apple adopted Mantle then where would they be now?
Apple did what they do, took ownership of their own stack.
My small home town of 9000 people could afford to support a man who did only shoe repair.

The shoes cost 50$, so paying him $30 to repair them was an acceptable purchase.

Now the shoes cost $100, but nobody can afford to spend even the original $30 to repair them because they have no money. Also the shoe repair man can't run a business anymore because the shoes are borderline unrepairable, such that even if you replace the sole or any other part, the rest of the shoe is just as worn out and useless.

Most engineering effort the past 30 years has been in making things out of materials that are just barely adequate. "It takes an engineer to put together a bridge that just barely stays up" also means it takes a department of engineers to shave one cent off the BOM of these shoes that also happens to make them last half as long.
Related After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video] [0](686 points, 4 months ago, 185 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38841080
Starbucks cold brew is actually not bad as far as cold brews go. It’s definitely not iced coffee.
Hey, I'm way ahead of Apple. I sell my services to my employer and extract fees from them. Do you extract fees too?